Alan Doyle Band

Newfoundland’s Alan Doyle learned piano and drums as a child but soon moved on to guitar, mandolin, bouzouki…pretty much anything with strings. At the age of 15 he joined his uncle’s rockabilly-meets-traditional-Newfoundland band, The New Standells. While attending St. John’s University he was one half of a duo called Staggering Home. Following a series of informal jam sessions, Doyle joined forces with Sean McCann, Bob Hallett and Darrell Power to form Great Big Sea. Their nine albums, double disc hits retrospective and two DVD releases have been declared Gold or Platinum and have sold a combined 1.2 million copies in Canada.
In 2012, Doyle released a solo album, Boy on Bridge which features collaborations with Canadian musicians Hawksley Workman, Jim Cuddy, Ron Hynes and actor-musician Russell Crowe, among others. The video for the second single, “Testify”, was nominated for a 2012 Juno. The creation of the album was captured by a film crew resulting in a documentary, also named Boy on Bridge.
A second solo album, So Let’s Go, was released in January, 2015. In 2014, Doyle became a published author with the release of Where I Belong which is about growing up in Newfoundland and Labrador.
“End of the World”, “Ordinary Day”, “When I’m Up (I Can’t Get Down)”, “Testify”, “So Let’s Go”.